Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Licence: Public domain · Source

• "Fortis imaginatio generat casum," say the schoolmen. CHAPTER XX · ¶586
• "Ut, quasi transactis saepe omnibu rebu, profundant Fluminis ingentes, fluctus, vestemque cruentent." CHAPTER XX · ¶589
• "Volta puer solvit, quae foemina voverat, Iphis." CHAPTER XX · ¶591
• 'Tis very probable, that visions, enchantments, and all extraordinary effects of that nature, derive their credit principally from the power of imagination, working and making its chiefest impression upon vulgar and more easy souls, whose belief is so strangely imposed upon, as to think they see what they do not see. CHAPTER XX · ¶594
• "Dum spectant oculi laesos, laeduntur et ipsi; Multaque corporibus transitione nocent." CHAPTER XX · ¶603
• "Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos." CHAPTER XX · ¶606
• "Nam quodcumque suis mutatum finibus exit, Continuo hoc mors est illius, quod fuit ante." CHAPTER XXI · ¶614
• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt CHAPTER XXI · ¶620
• XXII. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received XXIII. Various events from the same counsel. XXIV. Of pedantry. CHAPTER XXI · ¶623
• OF CUSTOM, AND THAT WE SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED CHAPTER XXII · ¶624
• "Usus efficacissimus rerum omnium magister." CHAPTER XXII · ¶626
• "Consuetudinis magna vis est: pernoctant venatores in nive: in montibus uri se patiuntur: pugiles, caestibus contusi, ne ingemiscunt quidem." CHAPTER XXII · ¶629
• "Non pudet physicum, id est speculatorem venatoremque naturae, ab animis consuetudine imbutis petere testimonium veritatis?" CHAPTER XXII · ¶637
• "Nil adeo magnum, nec tam mirabile quidquam Principio, quod non minuant mirarier omnes Paullatim." CHAPTER XXII · ¶647
• "Heu! patior telis vulnera facta meis." CHAPTER XXII · ¶656
• but the best pretence for innovation is of very dangerous consequence: CHAPTER XXII · ¶661
• "Aden nihil motum ex antiquo probabile est." CHAPTER XXII · ¶662
• "Ad deos id magis, quam ad se, pertinere: ipsos visuros, ne sacra sua polluantur;" CHAPTER XXII · ¶665
• "Quis est enim, quem non moveat clarissimis monumentis testata consignataque antiquitas?" CHAPTER XXII · ¶669
• "Quum de religione agitur, Ti. Coruncanium, P. Scipionem, P. Scaevolam, pontifices maximos, non Zenonem, aut Cleanthem, aut Chrysippum, sequor." CHAPTER XXII · ¶673
• "Aditum nocendi perfido praestat fides," CHAPTER XXII · ¶677
• Now, I say, that not in physic only, but in other more certain arts, fortune has a very great part. CHAPTER XXIII · ¶684
• Courage, the reputation and glory of which men seek with so greedy an appetite, presents itself, when need requires, as magnificently in cuerpo, as in full armour; in a closet, as in a camp; with arms pendant, as with arms raised. CHAPTER XXIII · ¶690
• "Habita fides ipsam plerumque fidem obligat." CHAPTER XXIII · ¶692
• "Stetit aggere fulti Cespitis, intrepidus vultu: meruitque timeri, Nil metuens." CHAPTER XXIII · ¶695

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